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Mr. Baseball

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5.8/10 • 135

1992-10-011h 48m

Comedy

He's the biggest thing to hit Japan since Godzilla!

Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find it in him?

Directors
Fred Schepisi
Editors
Peter Honess

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  1. Tom Selleck

    Tom Selleck

    Jack Elliot

  2. Ken Takakura

    Ken Takakura

    Uchiyama

  3. Aya Takanashi

    Aya Takanashi

    Hiroko Uchiyama

  4. Dennis Haysbert

    Dennis Haysbert

    Max 'Hammer' Dubois

  5. Toshi Shioya

    Toshi Shioya

    Yoji Nishimura

  6. Kosuke Toyohara

    Kosuke Toyohara

    Toshi Yamashita

  7. Toshizo Fujiwara

    Toshizo Fujiwara

    Ryoh Mukai

  8. Mak Takano

    Mak Takano

    Shinji Igarashi

  9. Kenji Morinaga

    Kenji Morinaga

    Hiroshi Kurosawa

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GenerationofSwine

Jan 12, 2023

10/10

Well, it's not the best film, however Mr. Magnum... Baseball... Tom Selleck does a great job of playing a stuck-up, egotistical chauvinistic well, zhlob and it might sound like an insult, but that is where the charm is. It's a movie where, at it's heart, it shows that Baseball transcends international boundaries... and I firmly believe that once the rest of the world realizes it's better than soccer, that will be true. However, in the meantime, it's also a movie about the worst possible culture shock and the worst possible person to experience it. And, of course, it promises a happy ending, it promises that Mr. Baseball will learn from his mistakes, and it promises that baseball will prevail. And, of course, it delivers on that promise like all movies like this too, and, again, that is the charm. But, really, it's a baseball movie and it takes a lot to make them bad.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
--
Revenue
$20,000,000.00
Keywords
japanbaseball